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Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions have reached 3.3 billion, equivalent to half the global population, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said. Reuters has more.

The Epoc Mind Reading Helmet from Emotiv should be available in the US and the UK from early 2008 capable of reading what wearers are thinking. Initially to be launched for Gamers controling their characters the implications are massive, opening the possiility that one day soon people will be able to control the cursor on their computer by simply thinking about it.

The uSwitch study says the Online shopping in the UK is due to hit £40bn this year. It predicts that the UK’s online spending will further rise to £162bn by 2020, when it will make up 40% of total retail sales.

While Forrester Research predicts that online Christmas shopping will reach £13.8bn this year, a 42% increase on 2006.

“Google’s quest to be everywhere continues to grow with news that the
Mountain View search giant will today announce a new deal that will see motorists in the United States hooking up to Google at the gas station.